Enough is Enough! / Ça suffit!

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This book uses empirical research to bring together a broad range of protest contexts in twelve chapters. From the formation of Maroon societies in the early colonial period, to female mobilisation in authoritarian contexts, via urban youth culture, women or mineworkers in trade unionism, as well as pro- and anti- gay rights activists, the protagonists here all insist upon their rights to protest in a variety of ways. Sometimes popular protest is expressed through religion, often (and sometimes violently) by young people, exasperated by their long wait for social achievement. Electoral wars and the formation of militias reveal a geography of violence in urban areas, which, in some sectarian excesses, can be displaced to rural areas, as described in the study on Boko Haram.

Biographical Note

Kadya Tall is an anthropologist and is Senior Researcher at
Institut de Recherche pour le Développement - Institut des mondes africains (Imaf), Paris. She works on the cultural productions of the South Atlantic world, Religions and heritage and wrote
Le candomblé de Bahia, miroir baroque des melancholies postcoloniales (2012).

Marie-Emmanuelle Pommerolle, is a political scientist and Senior Lecturer at
Paris1-Sorbonne, affiliated to
l'Institut des mondes africains (Imaf). She is currently director of the
French Institute of Research in Africa (IFRA) based in Nairobi.